Xbox One has play as you download too

Just like their Playstation 4 owning friends, Xbox One gamers will be able to start playing their games while they’re still being downloaded to the console, Microsoft has confirmed.

In a statement to Engadget Microsoft said:

Once the required data -– a fraction of the entire game -– is on [a consumer’s] hard drive, they can jump into the action while the rest of the game finishes downloading in the background.

It means that both disc and digital games now support this “play as you download” feature, with it already being confirmed by Microsoft that while a game is being installed to the hard-drive from a disc, you can start playing it.

What will really be interesting is how much data is actually required before you can start playing. Obviously it’s going to vary (potentially very widely) game to game, but will it average out at 10% of a game’s total data, 50% or more? We’ll have to wait and see this feature in action before making judgement.

4 responses to “Xbox One has play as you download too”

Slowing making up for lost ground (ground they never should have lost in the first place) against the PS4… Keep going Microsoft and correct all the misinformation out there! PS fire your PR team after this is over.

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